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A triumph against the odds: Les Troyens at the BBC Proms

Lionel Lhote and Alice Coote
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Dinis Sousa conducts the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
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Dinis Sousa and Michael Spyres
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Alice Coote and the Monteverdi Choir in the Act 2 finale
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“the prodigious mezzo-soprano has seldom sounded more glorious than she did here”
Reviewed at Royal Albert Hall, London on 3 September 2023
Berlioz, Les Troyens (The Trojans) (concert performance; sung in French with English surtitles)
Dinis Sousa, Conductor
Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
Monteverdi Choir
Michael Spyres, Énée
Alice Coote, Cassandre, Ghost of Cassandre
Paula Murrihy, Didon
Lionel Lhote, Chorèbe, Ghost of Chorèbe
Ashley Riches, Panthée
Adèle Charvet, Ascagne
Alex Rosen, Narbal, Mercure, Ghost of Hector
Beth Taylor, Anna
Rebecca Evans, Hecuba
Laurence Kilsby, Hylas, Iopas
Tristan Hambleton, Priam
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****1
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Rossini’s Cenerentola proves great fun in Adelaide
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Welsh National Opera’s Dutchman docks in Birmingham
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